Successful Independent Consulting

APRIL 14, 2017

This is the third and final part in a series of articles. The first article in this series about how to optimize LinkedIn profiles explains how to create an excellent first impression with a photo, background image, and a succinct “tag line” to summarize your brand and expertise. Make the most of it! Skills & Endorsements.

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Nash Consulting

JULY 14, 2021

The world is changing, and it’s changing quickly, and organizations need to get really good at change or risk failure, which involves understanding and managing resistance to change. It’s not just significant changes that meet resistance. It’s about helping them accept the change. It’s a process.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

DECEMBER 26, 2022

By setting aside dedicated time for reflection, focusing on specific experiences or events, using prompts to guide your thinking, and adopting a strengths mindset, you can use reflection to become a more effective and self-aware leader. 3 Powerful reflection tools. This is one leadership assessment you need to be using.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

JULY 17, 2023

This article explains the role of culture in M&As, cross-cultural issues, and the proven practices of creating a shared culture intentionally. However, highly visible and disruptive events like mergers and acquisitions can make cultural differences striking. HOW TO READ THIS WHITE PAPER This white paper has five sections.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Change events are often uncertain, unstable, stressful, and risky. But having a clear meaning or purpose behind the change will strengthen your case. Change communications is never a one-and-done event; keeping employees informed is something that you will have to do throughout every step of the change process.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

They might also include noteworthy events in financial markets, such as the aforementioned Brexit vote. Finally, the Morgan Stanley system includes content on life events. This is a change management challenge that is at least equal to getting FAs to use the next best action system effectively.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. What did we do?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

At the internal launch event, Dr. Reddy’s employees learned about their purpose and were invited to be part of realizing it. ” The following day Dr. Eventually, in successful movements, leaders leverage their momentum and influence to institutionalize the change in the formal power structures and rules of society.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 24, 2016

When your opponents flawlessly employ the principles of change management – even if only by accident – you’d better have something better than appeals to efficiency up your sleeve. On its face, surge pricing is a good idea, or at minimum an economically sensible one.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Shaped by history, personalities, and events, levels of influence the members of the C-suite were not all equal. In all too many cases, the CEO devoted little time to trying to manage this dynamic. As we mentioned in an earlier article , the CEO must play a leading role in establishing the analytics function in his or her organization.

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Management Consulted

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

A total of 8 Managing Directors over various regions and issue areas help him lead the widely respected firm. The practice areas at Towers Watson reflect the operational nature of consulting projects at the firm: Communication and Change Management. Corporate Risk Management and Risk Financing. Practice Areas.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2016

In our survey (not yet publicly published) of almost 170 industrial organizations, 96% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that machine learning is automating process-change management inside their organization. Automated process change offers one way to help remove some factors that lead to time and cost overruns.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

New predictive analytics tools promise to reduce waste and improve care by forecasting the likelihood of an event — for example, a patient being readmitted to a hospital or developing a life-threatening infection — and allowing providers to tailor treatments and services accordingly.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

They had all received at least one promotion or expansion of roles and responsibilities within management at the present company, and had been identified as having high leadership potential. What were the critical events, and what lessons did they learn? How People Get Ahead. Too often, their ambitions are thwarted.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

None of these conditions exists in extreme events such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, major military battles — or large-scale business turnarounds. The variability and unpredictability of events are too high for rigid directives.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

To do this, it’s important to go back to the basics and understand what gossip really is : casual and unconstrained conversation, about absent third parties, regarding information or events that cannot be confirmed as being true. You can promote workplace fellowship by: sponsoring company events and outings. Office Politics.

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Harvard Business

MAY 31, 2016

Earlier this year, we walked the halls of the Hannover Messe, one of Europe’s largest events for industrial manufacturers. The newest robots, 3-D printing systems, and data-mining hardware and services were all there along with a host of people hyping Industry 4.0,

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In the case of hurricanes and major weather events, physical and technical roadblocks often prevent response teams from obtaining critical data to track damages, prioritize response needs, and keep the public informed so that people know how to stay safe.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

To avoid befalling the fate of those that dropped out, we recommend that CEOs consider these actions: Exploit unique events to reset the agenda. Unique events — a change in executive leadership, a merger, or a collapsing share price, for example – startle an organization into action.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

The event that started in Uttar Pradesh rolled like an earthquake over Nestle and resulted in five-month ban on Maggi. The solution is probably not easy, but it comes down to four radical changes: Manage talent differently. Maggi’s sales accounted for quarter of Nestlé’s $1.6 billion sales in India.

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Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2016

Consider the challenges of the 21 st century enterprise: things change too fast for one individual to know how to best respond; there are many explanations for any event, and multiple perspectives are needed to understand what that event means and decide what to do; a pipeline of future leaders is essential to companies’ long term success.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2018

Tell the stories at company events and recognize middle and front-line leaders who are looking ahead and identifying opportunities. Minimize the need for multiple layers of sign-off. It makes the culture too risk averse and squelches momentum. Advertise successes. Nothing breeds success like success.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2016

” Through listening sessions with key stakeholders and hundreds of speeches at internal and industry events, Anderson and his leadership team enlisted the support of employees to transform the company from top to bottom, and inspired suppliers, partners, customers, and policymakers to join their movement.

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Harvard Business

JULY 9, 2018

Successful companies have realized that these initiatives cannot be left alone, that managers have to be proactive in getting people to contribute by organizing events to generate awareness and by establishing processes to follow up with those who participate.

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Harvard Business

MAY 7, 2018

Serious safety events have declined, suggesting that the changes have driven safer, not just more efficient, care. The number of patients who leave without being seen decreased by 29% in the quarter after Harvey. The average time patients wait until they see their first provider decreased by 22%. Boarding hours dropped by 52%.

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Harvard Business

MAY 29, 2017

For months, the organization’s attention is consumed with the perception that things are really changing and that we are “all in this together.” I spoke at an event where a company had completed such a campaign about six months earlier. I sensed that not much had happened since.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

For example, in one of our studies we talked to people participating in athletic events that raise money for a charitable cause (e.g., For instance, a journalist in one of our studies, after being inspired by another journalist who had revealed his undocumented status, started writing influential articles about immigration issues.

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Harvard Business

MAY 15, 2018

Once you’ve thought through the impact each scenario could have on your business, as well as your value proposition, your organization is now in a position to start making decisions around pricing, product portfolios, supply chain management, channel management, and people.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 30, 2018

Success will depend on 1) viewing change as a process instead of an event; 2) engaging both management and staff; and 3) systematic evaluation of the initiative, using quality indicators, across all stages.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2016

These events have left many in despair, wondering why the violence keeps happening and whether anyone knows what to do about it. Alarmingly, 14 of the shooting deaths this year have been ambush-style, retaliatory attacks on unsuspecting officers, compared with three in the same period last year.

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Harvard Business

MAY 8, 2017

Telling that kind of story about the future is not a one-time event. Instead of simply reinforcing the story about strengthening Aetna’s current businesss, Bertolini developed a narrative about building new skills to help consumers make better health choices — and about building a new organization that can make money doing so.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

They did this by making it a social event with food, drink, and student performances, offering education and support services such as IT skills and career advice, and providing similar services at home through outreach programs.

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